Small Time Criminals

This is awesome.

One, because it’s classically unoriginal in that the crooks were doing exactly what crooks in movies always do: flash cash and get caught.

Two, because it’s a direct consequence of corruption in politics that prevents the United States Congress from ever mandating the use of smartcard/chip-and-PIN-based ATM cards. If the U.S. ever decided to do this, the rest of world would also breathe easier, because they would no longer have to support the pure magstripe-based withdrawal system that only Americans actually need, and which compromises their security everywhere they go to spend money.

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